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20 October 2008 • Tags: apple, cocoa, development, mac, ruby, software
Apple has just released a tutorial for creating OS X apps with Ruby:
Now with MacRuby, you can create Mac OS X applications with Ruby while maintaining the peformance benefits of a fully fledged Cocoa application. This article will show you how to get started with MacRuby and build your first sample application.
Many people would argue that building OS X apps in Cocoa is the only way to go. For a while, I’d thought they were right – the support for building Mac apps in Java was pretty lackluster (believe me, I’ve tried). Unlike Java, Objective-C and Ruby both share a common ancestor in Smalltalk, making the similarities (and bridge) a bit stronger.
This is a huge boon to Ruby developers who are wanting to build Mac apps.
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